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Federico Calle-Vallejo

Federico Calle-Vallejo

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Chemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
26352
World Ranking
6752
National Ranking
201

Overview

Federico Calle-Vallejo is a researcher affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their work is focused on several key fields, including energy, materials science, and engineering. The subfields they have contributed to most notably include renewable energy, sustainability, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, catalysis, and electrochemistry.

Their research output spans a variety of scientific topics centered around energy conversion and catalytic processes. Main topics of Federico Calle-Vallejo's work are:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, reflecting an active research network. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Boon Siang Yeo (17 joint publications)
  • Francesc Illas (15 joint publications)
  • Manuel J. Kolb (13 joint publications)
  • Oriol Piqué (11 joint publications)
  • Santiago Builes (9 joint publications)

Their research has been published extensively in various scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are:

  • ACS Catalysis (13 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (7 publications)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A (5 publications)
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts (5 publications)
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (3 publications)

Some recent papers by Federico Calle-Vallejo illustrate the scope and themes of their work:

  • MXenes: New Horizons in Catalysis, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Enhancing CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol on Copper-Silver Composites by Opening an Alternative Catalytic Pathway, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Elucidating the Facet-Dependent Selectivity for CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu-Ag Tandem Catalysts, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Structure dependency of the atomic-scale mechanisms of platinum electro-oxidation and dissolution, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • A Semiempirical Method to Detect and Correct DFT-Based Gas-Phase Errors and Its Application in Electrocatalysis, 2020, ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Universality in Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis on Oxide Surfaces

    Isabela C. Man;Hai-Yan Su;Federico Calle-Vallejo;Heine Anton Hansen

  • Advances and challenges in understanding the electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to fuels

    Yuvraj Y. Birdja;Yuvraj Y. Birdja;Elena Pérez-Gallent;Marta C. Figueiredo;Marta C. Figueiredo;Adrien J. Göttle

  • Catalysts and Reaction Pathways for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

    Ruud Kortlever;Jing Shen;Klaas Jan P. Schouten;Federico Calle-Vallejo

  • Theoretical considerations on the electroreduction of CO to C2 species on Cu(100) electrodes

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Finding optimal surface sites on heterogeneous catalysts by counting nearest neighbors

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;Federico Calle-Vallejo;Jakub Tymoczko;Viktor Colic;Viktor Colic;Quang Huy Vu

  • Introducing structural sensitivity into adsorption–energy scaling relations by means of coordination numbers

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;David Loffreda;Marc T. M. Koper;Philippe Sautet

  • Spectroscopic Observation of a Hydrogenated CO Dimer Intermediate During CO Reduction on Cu(100) Electrodes

    Elena Pérez‐Gallent;Marta C. Figueiredo;Federico Calle‐Vallejo;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Tuning the activity of Pt(111) for oxygen electroreduction by subsurface alloying.

    Ifan E. L. Stephens;Alexander S. Bondarenko;Alexander S. Bondarenko;Francisco J. Perez-Alonso;Federico Calle-Vallejo

  • Guidelines for the Rational Design of Ni-Based Double Hydroxide Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Oscar Diaz-Morales;Isis Ledezma-Yanez;Marc T. M. Koper;Federico Calle-Vallejo

  • Density functional studies of functionalized graphitic materials with late transition metals for oxygen reduction reactions

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;José Ignacio Martínez;José Ignacio Martínez;Jan Rossmeisl

  • Fast Prediction of Adsorption Properties for Platinum Nanocatalysts with Generalized Coordination Numbers

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;José I. Martínez;Juan M. García-Lastra;Philippe Sautet

  • Identifying active surface phases for metal oxide electrocatalysts: a study of manganese oxide bi-functional catalysts for oxygen reduction and water oxidation catalysis

    Hai-Yan Su;Yelena Gorlin;Isabela C. Man;Federico Calle-Vallejo

  • MXenes: New Horizons in Catalysis

    Ángel Morales-García;Federico Calle-Vallejo;Francesc Illas

  • Structure- and Potential-Dependent Cation Effects on CO Reduction at Copper Single-Crystal Electrodes

    Elena Pérez-Gallent;Giulia Marcandalli;Marta Costa Figueiredo;Federico Calle-Vallejo

  • Number of outer electrons as descriptor for adsorption processes on transition metals and their oxides

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;Nilay G. Inoglu;Hai-Yan Su;José I. Martínez

  • Na-doped ruthenium perovskite electrocatalysts with improved oxygen evolution activity and durability in acidic media

    María Retuerto;Laura Pascual;Federico Calle-Vallejo;Pilar Ferrer

  • Electrochemical water splitting by gold: evidence for an oxide decomposition mechanism

    Oscar Diaz-Morales;Federico Calle-Vallejo;Casper de Munck;Marc T. M. Koper;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Physical and Chemical Nature of the Scaling Relations between Adsorption Energies of Atoms on Metal Surfaces

    F. Calle-Vallejo;J. I. Martínez;J. M. García-Lastra;J. Rossmeisl

  • Why Is Bulk Thermochemistry a Good Descriptor for the Electrocatalytic Activity of Transition Metal Oxides

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;Oscar A. Díaz-Morales;Manuel J. Kolb;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Performance and degradation of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: State of the art in modeling from atomistic to system scale

    Thomas Jahnke;Georg Futter;Arnulf Latz;Thomas Malkow

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc T. M. Koper
Marc T. M. Koper Leiden University
Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka
Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka Technical University of Munich
Jan Rossmeisl
Jan Rossmeisl University of Copenhagen
Philippe Sautet
Philippe Sautet University of California, Los Angeles
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Francesc Illas
Francesc Illas University of Barcelona
Ifan E. L. Stephens
Ifan E. L. Stephens Imperial College London
Ib Chorkendorff
Ib Chorkendorff Technical University of Denmark
J. A. Alonso
J. A. Alonso University of Valladolid
Serhiy Cherevko
Serhiy Cherevko Forschungszentrum Jülich

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